Nate Housley is a public historian and independent researcher. He is a member of Democratic Socialists of Salt Lake.
Nate was born and raised in South Carolina, though he has Mormon ancestry from Utah and Idaho. He now lives in Salt Lake City, where he enjoys the outdoors year-round. To contact Nate, click the link here.
Education
PhD student, US History, University of Utah (current)
MA US History, University of Utah 2019
BA English, Brigham Young University, Provo 2006
Selected Work
Topic areas: Western history, labor, land and water, uranium
Water and Great Salt Lake:Great Salt Lake and the Uinta Basin: An Intertwined History
We have to put the Great Salt Lake first
Presentations:
Working to Save Great Salt Lake Advocacy, at Utah State History Conference 2022
Guest spot on Brigham Young Money podcast
Uranium:
The Uranium Boom and Free Enterprise
“Risk and Reward,” part of Mining the West digital exhibit
Utah history:
Rural Utah at a Crossroads (co-author)
A Distance Reading of Immigration in Carbon County